It’s wonderful the ORS team has developed this great service and they offer it for free. As a free service, I don’t feel I can expect 99.9% uptime. But for our purpose, we want more uptime than ORS currently delivers. Below is a list of downtimes over the last few months.
Is there a way we can get a higher-uptime version of ORS? Does anybody host it for a paid plan with a service level agreement (SLA)?
Sun 2025 Feb 2, 1:55am PT / 9:55 UTC — down for 40h 37m
Sun 2025 Jan 26, 5:48pm PT / Mon 27 Jan 2025 1:48 UTC— down for 43 minutes—scheduled maintenance
Thu 2025 Jan 23, 5:36am PT / 13:35 UTC — down for 1h 4m
Thu 2025 Jan 23, 6:28 am PT/ 14:28 UTC— down 46 min
Thu 2024 Oct 24, 12:03am PT/ 8:03 UTC — down 17h 44m
Tue 2024 June 11, 11:28am PT / 19:28 UTC — 48h 50m
I hope I don’t sound ungrateful—we are very happy to have ORS at all. And you are very generous offering it for free for non-profit causes. But ideally we’d have something more like 99.9% uptime, and maybe redundant servers so scheduled maintenance can be done without taking the service down. I know that’s asking a lot for a free service, which is why I feel bad asking for it. But we’d be willing to pay some to support that.
Another idea, if other ORS users are in a similar situation, perhaps we could get together and form a team to maintain a backup system?